Saturday, April 20, 2013

Black Sabbath launched their reunion tour on Saturday in Auckland, New Zealand.

The show, at the Vector Arena, featured three of the four original Sabbath members – Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler – who were joined by Ozzy’s touring drummer Tommy Clufetos in place of the absent Bill Ward.

Clufetos played with Sabbath for their three live dates in 2012; Ward is sitting out the band’s new album, “13,” and reunion tour over a contractual dispute.

Sabbath kicked off the set with “War Pigs” to wild applause from the sold-out crowd.

The band played two new songs from the forthcoming “13” album (due June 11), including the just-released lead track, “God Is Dead?”, as well as the project’s first single, “End Of The Beginning.”